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Weight management is handled by changing your relationship with food. Unlike smoking, weight control is actually more of a challenge to manage because with smoking, once you have quit, you never have to smoke again. Eating is obviously something that you have to do on a regular basis. Dieting is not the answer because of the subtle suggestion is that one day you can go off of your diet and you can go back to your old ways. Unfortunately, your old ways are what got you here in the first place. Dieting also puts you into the role of being “victimized” because there is always forbidden fruit out there just waiting to entice you. Obviously, there are foods that are more beneficial than others and choosing those foods make better sense for a healthy lifestyle.
We frequently are attracted to foods that do not serve us well because we often use food to fulfill emotional needs as well as for reward and punishment. We also have belief systems centered around food, such as the “clean plate” rule. Food is biologically fuel for the body. You wouldn’t fill the gas tank in your car and then, because you wanted more gas, fill the trunk of your car as well. Yet, we do that all the time with our body
With hypnosis, we can offer suggestions to the subconscious to help you change your eating habits. Fortunately, virtually everyone can be hypnotized. However, hypnosis cannot make you do anything. You have to want to make the change for yourself. What hypnosis can do, is offer tools that will change how you look at, and respond to food. This means that you have to be committed to succeed.
Our program is designed to change your relationship with food. In order to do that, we need to identify your emotional connections with food, your food beliefs and values, your triggers for when it’s time to eat, your problem foods (such as chocolate or pasta), and your daily eating habits. We then begin the process of changing these relationships so that you can truly look at food as nutrition or fuel for the body.
This requires that you change. I can help support you in that change, and yet, you are the one that does the actual work. The Weight Management Program consists of 6 sessions and is spread over a time span of about 2 ½ - 3 months. I also give you a weight management CD which you listen to 2-3 times/week. This gives your body time to adjust and so that you can see the results. The cost is $1500 for all 6 sessions. This is an investment in yourself to improve your self image and your physical and emotional health.
Weight control is a combination of watching what you eat and exercise. You will not succeed without a combination of both. Also, do not expect to lose enormous amounts of weight in one or two weeks. It probably took years to put on the excess weight and it will take time to take it back off.
There will also be a task assigned prior to the first appointment. Failure to complete the task 100% will mean that we will not see you until completion of that task.
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